Jack Van Impe

[akdiver 3]

Anyone ever watch Jack Van Impe?

http://www.jvim.com/

When I am really bored and want some mindless entertainment, I'll watch him for 20 minutes or so. While I thoroughly think he and his ilk are a morons of the biggest variety, for some reason, it can be fascinating to watch. I wonder if he really believes this stuff, or if it just his business model.

[beejay 125]

You are not alone. Although I haven't seen the show in years but I do remember coming across it once in a while and watching it like a car accident. There is a strange fascination to it.

Rexella- part of the conspiracy or robot?

[Nessa 23]

lmao who the heck is beejay?

[akdiver 3]

Rexella- part of the conspiracy or robot?

I think she may be an anti-christ spy (:

[beejay 125]

lmao who the heck is beejay?

a not so silent observer

[Chica Yeyé 41]

lmao who the heck is beejay?

a not so silent observer

So you're expat's "Observer"?????????

and no, I've never watched JVI, but now I will ---- love bad TV.

[Emancipation 2]

Rexella.... ah man.. she's a scary gal...

have watched.. guilty.. waaaaaay to fake for me.. need reality man.

[alienlovechild 75]

Benny Hinn and Robert Tilton are more entertaining. Healing and speaking in tongues never get old. I thought Tilton was a comedy routine but oh man did he know how to bilk people.

"In Success-N-Life, Tilton regularly taught that all of life's trials, especially poverty, were a result of sin. Tilton's ministry revolved around the practice of making "vows", financial commitments to Tilton's ministry. Tilton's preferred vow, stressed frequently on his broadcasts, was $1,000. Occasionally, Tilton would claim to have received a "word" for someone to give a vow of $5,000 or even $10,000. When a person made a vow to Tilton, Tilton preached that God would recognize the vow and reward the donor with vast material riches.[10] The show also ran "testimonials" of viewers who gave to Tilton's ministry and reportedly received miracles in return, a practice that would be used as the basis for a later lawsuit from donors charging Tilton's ministry with fraud[11]. A Dallas Morning News story published in 1992 observed that Tilton spent more than 84% of his show's airtime for fundraising and promotions, a total higher than the 22% for an average commercial television show;[12] other sources put the total fundraising time during episodes of Success-N-Life closer to 68%.[13] By contrast, the televised ministry of Billy Graham spent an average of 5% of total airtime on fundraising and promotions.[14]"

The Apple of God's Eye

Trinity Foundation members, acting on this information, started digging through garbage dumpsters outside Tilton's many banks in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area as well as dumpsters outside the office of Tilton's lawyer, J.C. Joyce (who was also based in Tulsa). Over the next 30 days, Trinity's "garbologists", as Anthony dubbed them[20], found tens of thousands of discarded prayer requests, bank statements, computer printouts containing the coding for how Tilton's "personalized" letters were generated, and more, all of which were shown in detail on the Primetime Live documentary, now titled "The Apple of God's Eye".[21] In a follow-up broadcast on November 28, 1991, Primetime Live host Diane Sawyer said that the Trinity Foundation and Primetime Live assistants found prayer requests in bank dumpsters on 14 separate occasions in a 30-day period.[22]

Denial

Tilton vehemently denied the allegations and took to the airwaves on November 22, 1991 on a special episode of Success-N-Life entitled "Primetime Lies" to air his side of the story. Tilton also asserted that the prayer requests found in garbage bags shown on the Primetime Live investigation were stolen from the ministry and placed in the dumpster for a sensational camera shot, and that he prayed over every prayer request received, to the point that he "laid on top of those prayer requests so much that 'the chemicals' actually got into my bloodstream, and...I had two small strokes in my brain."[23]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tilton

Edited September 12, 2008 by alienlovechild